Robert Gilchrist

Robert Gilchrist (1790-11 July 1866) was Mayor of Jersey City from 19 April 1850 to 2 May 1852, succeeding Henry C. Taylor and preceding David Stout Manners.

Biography
Robert Gilchrist was born in 1790, and he served as President of the Jersey City Board of Selectment from 1835 to 1836, as Clerk of Hudson County from 1840 to 1865, and as Mayor from 1850 to 1852, serving as a member of the Democratic Party. He died in 1866, and his son Robert Gilchrist Jr. would go on to serve as Attorney General of New Jersey.